University of Iowa Health Management & Policy

Hello Everyone! My name is Rashelle Ludolph and I am a joint MHA/MBA student in between my second and third years of graduate school. Last summer I interned at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics with Ambulatory Care Services, the department I work in as a graduate assistant during the academic year. Knowing the importance of broadening one’s experiences, I sought a summer internship for this summer at a different type of organization. I am currently the intern at Unity Hospital in Fridley, MN, which is just north of Minneapolis. Unity is a community hospital with a little over 200 beds. As part of Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Unity provides both a great experience working in a community hospital as well as exposure to being part of a larger system. My preceptor, Lori Wightman, was previously the President of New Ulm Medical Center (also part of the Allina system) and has taken an Iowa MHA student for over 6 years. Lori has done a great job of assigning me interest...

Konnichiwa from Japan. This summer I am interning at Kameda Medical Center in Kamogawa-shi, a small town on the southeastern coast of Japan. For the past several years John Wocher, the Executive Vice President of Administration and Director of International Patient Relations at Kameda, has offered an Iowa student the opportunity to come to Kameda and observe how the hospital operates and partake in a project of their choosing. You may be wondering how Iowa has had an ably prepared Japanese speaker for the last several years. Well, Japanese is not a requirement. In any situation where translation is necessary, I have had an interpreter with me. Things can get a little dicey when I'm not at work, but for the most part people are willing to try to speak English with me. Kameda Medical Center is comprised of several components including the general hospital (900+ beds), the clinics (~20 beds), and the rehabilitation hospital (~60 beds). Kameda is owned and operated by the Kameda fa...